Article 211 Bis 3 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE NINE. Disclosure of secrets and unlawful access to computer systems and equipment · CHAPTER II. Unlawful access to computer systems and equipment
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Whoever, being authorized to access computer systems and equipment of the State, unduly modifies, destroys or causes loss of information they contain, shall be imposed two to eight years of imprisonment and three hundred to nine hundred days fine.
Whoever, being authorized to access computer systems and equipment of the State, unduly copies information they contain, shall be imposed one to four years of imprisonment and one hundred fifty to four hundred fifty days fine.
Whoever, being authorized to access computer systems, equipment or storage media in matters of public security, unduly obtains, copies or uses information they contain, shall be imposed a penalty of four to ten years of imprisonment and a fine of five hundred to one thousand days of the general minimum wage in force in the Federal District. If the responsible person is or has been a public official in a public security institution, there shall additionally be imposed up to one half more of the imposed penalty, removal and disqualification for a term equal to that of the resulting penalty to serve in another public employment, position, post or commission.